IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2024
Google agreed to erase billions of browser records to settle a class action lawsuit

Google is going to delete data records related to the ‘Incognito Mode’ browsing activity to settle a class action lawsuit. Google has agreed to delete billions of data records related to users’ browsing activities in ‘Incognito Mode’ to settle a class action lawsuit. The class action, filed in 2020 by law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2024
PandaBuy data breach allegedly impacted over 1.3 million customers

Threat actors claimed the hack of the PandaBuy online shopping platform and leaked data belonging to more than 1.3 million customers. At least two threat actors claimed the hack of the PandaBuy online shopping platform and leaked data of more than 1.3 million customers on a cybercrime forum. The member of the BreachForums ‘Sanggiero’ announced […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2024
OWASP discloses a data breach

The OWASP Foundation disclosed a data breach that impacted some members due to a misconfiguration of an old Wiki web server. The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach that impacted some of its members. The OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the security of software. It […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2024
New Vultur malware version includes enhanced remote control and evasion capabilities

Researchers detected a new version of the Vultur banking trojan for Android with enhanced remote control and evasion capabilities. Researchers from NCC Group discovered a new version of the Vultur banking trojan for Android that includes new enhanced remote control and evasion capabilities. Some of the new features implemented in this variant include the ability […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2024
Pentagon established the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy

The US government announced establishing the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy. The US Defense Department announced establishing the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy (ASD(CP)) as directed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. The ASD(CP) will oversee DoD policy for cyber operations […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2024
Info stealer attacks target macOS users

Experts warn of info stealer malware, including Atomic Stealer, targeting Apple macOS users via malicious ads and rogue websites. Jamf Threat Labs researchers analyzed info stealer malware attacks targeting macOS users via malicious ads and rogue websites. One of the attacks spotted by the researchers relied on sponsored ads proposed to the users while searching […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 465 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Expert found a backdoor in XZ tools used many Linux distributions German BSI warns of 17,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2024
DinodasRAT Linux variant targets users worldwide

A Linux variant of the DinodasRAT backdoor used in attacks against users in China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, researchers from Kaspersky warn. Researchers from Kaspersky uncovered a Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor DinodasRAT that was employed in attacks targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. DinodasRAT (aka XDealer) is written in C++ and supports a broad range of capabilities to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2024
AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. The researchers confirmed that the leaked data is legitimate, however, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2024
Expert found a backdoor in XZ tools used many Linux distributions

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red […]